The Second Circuit will not revive a Catholic former teacher's suit claiming New York City's Department of Education violated the First Amendment by denying her exemption request to its COVID-19 vaccine mandate, ruling Wednesday that she lacked evidence that her beliefs factored into the decision.
A Sixth Circuit case that the U.S. Department of Labor has continued litigating involving a wage rule the agency is separately seeking to walk back shows how the department simultaneously takes different approaches to enforcement and deregulation, agency veterans and attorneys said.
The owner of a shuttered Chicago restaurant responded to an unfair labor practice complaint against the restaurant, so the case against the establishment can continue even though the restaurant itself didn't respond, the National Labor Relations Board said, denying agency prosecutors' motion for default judgment.